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More about avenaceous
The very rare adjective avenaceous, meaning 鈥渙f, like, or pertaining to oats,鈥� is used only in botany. Avenaceous comes straight from the Latin adjective 补惫脓苍腻肠别耻蝉 鈥渕ade from oats,鈥� a derivative of 补惫脓苍补 鈥渙ats,鈥� which comes from the same Proto-Indo-European source as Lithuanian 补惫颈啪脿 and Slavic (Polish) owies, both meaning 鈥渙ats.鈥� Avenaceous entered English in the 18th century.
how is avenaceous used?
See birds that know our avenaceous store / Stoop to our hand, and thence repleted soar …
A spikelet, almost entire, of what seems to be a species of Poa, and the flowering glume of another grass, probably avenaceous, have also been found.
More about organon
The Greek noun 贸谤驳补苍辞苍 means 鈥渢ool, instrument, sensory organ, body part, musical instrument (whence the English name of the musical instrument), surgical instrument, table of calculations, (a concrete) work, work product, and a set of principles for conducting scientific and philosophical work.鈥� This last meaning first occurs in the works of the Peripatetic philosopher Alexander of Aphrodisias, who lived in the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries a.d. and was the most famous ancient Greek commentator on Aristotle. 脱谤驳补苍辞苍 is a derivative of the Greek root erg-, org– (also dialectal werg-, worg-), from the Proto-Indo-European root werg-, worg-; the Germanic form of this root is werk-, whence English work. Organon in its sense 鈥渂odily organ鈥� entered English in the late 16th century; the philosophical sense entered English in the early 17th century.
how is organon used?
… for genuine proof in concrete matter we require an organon more delicate, versatile, and elastic than verbal argumentation.
It [logic] thus sunk into the position of an Organon or instrument.
vigesimal
adjective
of, relating to, or based on twenty.
More about vigesimal
The English adjective vigesimal comes from the Latin adjectives 惫墨驳脓蝉颈尘耻蝉 and 惫墨肠脓蝉颈尘耻蝉 (also 惫墨肠脓苍蝉颈尘耻蝉) 鈥渢wentieth.鈥� There is an obvious connection in meaning between the adjectives and the Latin numeral 惫墨驳颈苍迟墨 鈥渢wenty,鈥� but there is also an obvious difficulty in form. The fluctuation between –g– and –c– in the Latin words has never been satisfactorily explained, as the expected Latin form would be 惫墨肠颈苍迟墨. Vigesimal entered English in the 17th century.
how is vigesimal used?
Maya numeral systems were vigesimal (base twenty), counted by twenties, four hundreds, eight thousands, and so on, rather than by tens, hundreds, and thousands as in a decimal system.
Portland is making vigorous preparations for the vigesimal or twentieth anniversary celebration of the founding of the Christian Endeavor Society ….